An oft-posed question: "Who can tell your stories?"

Over on Saints and Spinners , a fellow blogger is discussing the question of telling stories (see her post on July 29th.) Stories, that is, ...

NPR story: "Is Ancient People's End a Warning for the Future?"

Today (July 29, 2007), NPR is broadcasting a segment called "Is Ancient People's End a Warning for the Future?" There are some...

Stories for a Winter's Night: Fiction by Native American Writers, edited by Maurice Kenny

Due to limited budgets, we too often don't hear about outstanding books published by small presses. Small presses can't afford to se...

ALA President, Loriene Roy (Anishinabe)

The president of the American Library Association is Loriene Roy. She is Anishinabe (Ojibwe/Chippewa), and has done a lot of excellent work ...

THOMAS KING lectures on-line

If you know Thomas King's A Coyote Columbus Story , you might be interested in listening to him on line. In the last weeks, the Australi...

Native imagery in HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS

(Update: 9:36 AM. The image upload did not work today... Or at least, as I write, it isn't appearing on the blog. There is, instead, an...

Beverly Slapin's "How to Turn a Traditional Indian Story into a Children's Book (For Fun and Profit)

Today's post is a provocative essay by my friend and colleague, Beverly Slapin. It may not be published elsewhere without her written pe...

Liza Ketchum's WHERE THE GREAT HAWK FLIES

I posted Beverly Slapin's review of Where the Great Hawk Flies some time ago, but not as a stand-alone review. It was included in a pos...

A Teacher Reconsiders Virginia Grossman's TEN LITTLE RABBITS

"The Miss Rumphius Effect" is a blog maintained by a teacher named Tricia. Yesterday (July 16th), she wrote about Virginia Grossma...

Joseph Bruchac's Wabi [Note: This review used with permission of its author, Beverly Slapin, and may not be published elsewhere without ...

Children's Books about Canadian Residential Schools

Just found an article in The Looking Glass that reviews three children's books about Canada's residential schools for Native childr...

It's a small world Spent yesterday at Disneyland in Anaheim, noting the presence of what I'll generously call "American Indians...